Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Posted Sep 1, 2014 19:24 UTC (Mon) by SiB (subscriber, #4048)
In reply to: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems by ovitters
Parent article: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

> Aside from pretending you're speaking on behalf of multiple people, ..

He is.

> ... Such comments provides no value at all,

This one brought us to this post from bersl2, which helped me, at least.

Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Posted Sep 2, 2014 7:15 UTC (Tue) by oldtomas (guest, #72579) [Link]

> [ovitters] Aside from pretending you're speaking on behalf of multiple people,

> [SiB] He is.

Seconded. And Olav: you should know that.

Whenever I see something like this, I think "oh, noes! another Lennart Poettering thread" and turn away in disgust. That's most probably why those "multiple people" are overheard.

Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Posted Sep 2, 2014 9:07 UTC (Tue) by ovitters (guest, #27950) [Link] (1 responses)

> This one brought us to this post from bersl2

No, it did not. There's a warning by the someone from LWN that such comments are not useful. A hit and run comment is terrible. That maybe perhaps there can be value out of such comment: yeah whatever. Let's get concrete, that comment is utterly useless, negative and leads nowhere.

You value the post from bersl2, that is what should be on LWN. Not the initial comments because maybe after a totally crappy comment followed by a warning by LWN site owner you finally get to a better comment.

You're advocating terrible commenting. Start your own site.

Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Posted Sep 3, 2014 14:54 UTC (Wed) by ms-tg (subscriber, #89231) [Link]

Very well said.